The nuclear industry is investigating the feasibility of transitioning from 18-to 24-month fuel
cycles because of the positive impact it would have on the operational costs for the current …

With increased industry interest in extending reactor operating cycles, the neams!(neams!)
program has been investigating the behavior of high-burnup fuel during design basis …

This provides an initial sco** study on clad balloon and burst behavior for burnup
extension of reactor fuel. The associated issues with burnup extension are fuel …

This paper presents a TRACE model of a postulated large-break loss-of-coolant accident
(LBLOCA) event in a four-loop pressurized water reactor (PWR). The input files have been …

This milestone report summarizes recent work to investigate higher fidelity modeling and
simulation practices for large-break loss-of-coolant accident (LBLOCA) analysis in high …

The US nuclear energy industry is investigating strategies to increase the reactor operating
cycle to 24 months, which would result in rod average burnups exceeding the current limit of …

In the United States, boiling water reactors (BWRs) comprise approximately one-third of the
fleet, although much of the research and development focus has traditionally been on …